Pardon me for the newbie question.
I have just had an article on Con suites apparently deleted. Another article on the band Uffington Horse is in danger of deletion, but at least in this case it was stated why. What i would like to know is if there was a way to find out why specific articles were deleted so that corrections can possibly be made.
Thsi is especially useful as far as articles on fandom topics (such as the article on con suites, which are rooms at science fiction conventions where free food and drink is served to participants) could easily be viewed as irrelevant by non-fans and deleted needlessly or reflexively.
Michael Hopcroft
I have just had an article on Con suites apparently deleted. Another article on the band Uffington Horse is in danger of deletion, but at least in this case it was stated why. What i would like to know is if there was a way to find out why specific articles were deleted so that corrections can possibly be made.
Deletion requests should be listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/PAGE, though I don't see anything for "Con suite", "Con suites", or "Uffington Horse".
Michael P. Hopcroft wrote
Pardon me for the newbie question.
Not at all.
I have just had an article on Con suites apparently deleted.
No idea what has happened to this. [[Consuite]] from 2004 exists. There are deletion logs but without the exact title I'm not able to help further.
It is actually quite possible that, at times when the servers are overloaded, some submissions are lost and never even added to the database. I would always keep a text copy until I knew the particular edit had been successful.
Another article on the band Uffington Horse is in danger of deletion, but at least in this case it was stated why.
[[Uffington Horse (band)]] has had one of our more polite tags added. You need to establish notability of the band by expanding this.
What i would like to know is if there was a way to find out why specific articles were deleted so that corrections can possibly be made.
Thsi is especially useful as far as articles on fandom topics (such as the article on con suites, which are rooms at science fiction conventions where free food and drink is served to participants) could easily be viewed as irrelevant by non-fans and deleted needlessly or reflexively.
There are two classes of formalised deletions: speedy deletions handled by admins, and deletions through [[WP:VfD]], our sanitary arrangement. VfD (votes for deletion) is a formalised process allowing for full debate and reply. Speedies are supposed to be tightly constrained; in practice the criteria get pushed quite hard, but any admin should be willing to reconsider a speedy deletion. Other than that, a few categories get deleted on sight (graffiti, teenager prattle, that kind of thing).
With 1000 new pages a day we have to delete a fair number of pages. Things do go wrong in a few cases.
Charles
Charles Matthews wrote:
Michael P. Hopcroft wrote
Pardon me for the newbie question.
Not at all.
I have just had an article on Con suites apparently deleted.
No idea what has happened to this. [[Consuite]] from 2004 exists. There are deletion logs but without the exact title I'm not able to help further.
It is actually quite possible that, at times when the servers are overloaded, some submissions are lost and never even added to the database. I would always keep a text copy until I knew the particular edit had been successful.
Another article on the band Uffington Horse is in danger of deletion, but at least in this case it was stated why.
[[Uffington Horse (band)]] has had one of our more polite tags added. You need to establish notability of the band by expanding this.
Hopefully I have done so to your satisfaction. You or someone also said that the article on the Goldschmidt Sex Scandal should be merged with that on Goldschmidt tiself. Since the article is on the effects that the revelation of the scnadal had on the relationship between portland media and public figures, I respectfully disagree.
There are two classes of formalised deletions: speedy deletions handled by admins, and deletions through [[WP:VfD]], our sanitary arrangement. VfD (votes for deletion) is a formalised process allowing for full debate and reply. Speedies are supposed to be tightly constrained; in practice the criteria get pushed quite hard, but any admin should be willing to reconsider a speedy deletion. Other than that, a few categories get deleted on sight (graffiti, teenager prattle, that kind of thing).
Is there an admin I can e-mail directyl if I have concerns about one of my articles?
Michael P. Hopcroft wrote
You or someone also said that the article on the Goldschmidt Sex Scandal should be merged with that on Goldschmidt tiself. Since the article is on the effects that the revelation of the scnadal had on the relationship between portland media and public figures, I respectfully disagree.
Take it up on the talk page and put your case.
Is there an admin I can e-mail directyl if I have concerns about one of my articles?
You can interact with admins (of whom there are hundreds) by messages on their use talk pages; or by email if they have supplied an address (go to user page and look for the email link). Using user talk for discussions on content is usual and transparent.
Charles